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Tickets are now available for the 5th Annual 2011 Austin Chocolate Festival
The 5th Annual 2011 Austin Texas Chocolate Festival will be held October 15th and 16th 2011 at the Norris Conference Center. Tickets are available now available online.
About the Chocolate Festival
The Austin Chocolate Festival benefits Walk MS. The Annual Chocolate Festival has already raised over $5,000 for the Austin Affiliate of Susan G. Komen and hopes to raise at least $5,000 for the National MS Society with the support of the community and small businesses. There are several ways you can contribute besides attending the festival. There are sponsorship and volunteer opportunities available. If you would like to sponsor the festival or volunteer for the Austin Chocolate Festival please use the contact us form on the navigation to the right.
The chocolate lovers event consists of local chocolatiers and chocolate artisans including restaurants, bakeries, chocolatiers, patisseries, authors, and catering companies. The vendors will compete against each other in several categories, offer samples to festival guests, and sell their products.
The goals of the Austin Chocolate Festival are:
1. Help raise money and awareness for MS by bringing Walk MS teams to the festival.
2. Promote small food businesses in Texas that work with chocolate.
3. Provide a creative atmosphere and a symbiotic relationships between the festival vendors, guests, and the media.
Tickets are now available!
There are a limited number of tickets to the chocolate festival so order your tickets online in advance. http://austinchocolatefestival.com
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 The Kallari Association is a self-governed coalition of Amazon artists and organic cocoa producers. Our cooperative began in 1997 with less than fifty families and has now grown to over 850 families. Kallari has created sustainable income so Kichwa people can fulfill our basic family needs without logging our rainforests or selling our land. Our export of handcrafts has inspired the Kichwa youth to learn and practice traditional harvesting, dying, weaving and carving techniques. Just ten years ago, middlemen kept profits for themselves and set low prices for cocoa beans. Today Kallari communities sell as a single unit, ourleaders travel to Europe and North America to negotiate prices for our harvest. We have recently taken empowerment a step further: Kallari produces and sells gourmet organic fairly traded dark chocolate bars.
http://www.kallarichocolate.com/
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 Fern and Marshall's two daughters, Kelly and Marcia, have brought this rare delicacy to the public after 70 years of being a well-kept secret in the Show-Me-State of Missouri, the heart of the Midwest.
Offenbacher Gourmet Fudge creates a masterpiece of love in every bite. It is a true delicacy that is homemade and hand-beaten. We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do!
http://www.offenbacherfudge.com
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